GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

This was an investigative report about fraud and healthcare, pure fraud, pure victimization of vulnerable people. She happened to focus on some specific for-profit hospice providers. They were all actually publicly traded or private equity owned for-profit hospice providers. It feels somewhat random in some ways.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Check out some of their recent work, including: Dr. Holt-Lunstad’s and Dr. Perissinotto’s powerful perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine which provides a clinical framework for addressing loneliness and social isolation. I think I feel more comfortable as a provider in trying to support people in their isolation.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. Basically, there’s a lot of variation amongst hospice providers.

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Families Family IT Patients 107

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But, you know, I’ve talked to a lot of palliative care providers, a lot of people caring for people with serious illness. Like if a person has an issue, struggle with alcohol, I’m not their alcohol provider, but I may be their opioid provider. First one responds gets the first response. You know the case.

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